Chapter 1: Know Thy Self/Know Thy enemy

It was just another day at the warehouse. A Vilemon just unloaded the last crate of mushrooms for the day. 3 other Vilemons were waiting for him to finish so they could all go out to eat. "Good job. Our boss will be stinking rich!" One of the Vilemons said. "And if our boss is rich, we're all rich right?"

"Right!" The whole team agreed.

Just when the four of them was making their way out of the large building, a masked girl, and Gatomon was standing at the door, blocking the way.

"Who the hell are you?!" Shouted one of the Vilemons. "No… it can't be..." Said the other Vilemon. "It's… it's The Pink Angel!"

"Your days of illegal smuggling has come to an end." Said the young girl.

"Please… we're just trying to make a living here."

"By ruining the lives of Digimon? You have been warned many times."

"Wait.. it's not our fault that Digimon buy our stuff. It's their right."

"Your manipulative ways are over!" The girl lifted her arm and pointed to the group of Digimon, signalling the attack. Gatomon swiftly defeated the group of Vilemons and tied them all together with a rope. That was another mission accomplished by the young girl. "Good job." Said Gennai through the receiver. "This should cut off some of their supplies. I'll call you when I need you again.

Kari nodded and then transported herself back to Earth. Since the defeat of MaloMyotismon, the Digital World has been free of major evil but stray Digimon who were former servants of these evil had nothing better to do. Some of them started a new chapter and pursued peaceful endeavours, while others haven't changed their mischievous ways. To prevent these evil Digimon from forming powerful factions Gennai secretly enlisted Kari to stop these Digimon. Why was Kari the only one who could stop them she doesn't know but she felt that Gennai will reveal the bigger picture to her at some point.

Meanwhile on another island, 3 Ogremon and a masked boy was sitting around a table playing Poker. "I'm not going anywhere until you put your mask on the table." Said an Ogremon sitting opposite of the boy while placing his underwear on the table next to the belongings of the other Digimon.

The boy sighed and placed a large bone club on the table. "I'll consider it if you get your things back."

The Ogremons paused a bit, and then the Ogremon to the left of the blonde boy, revealed his cards. "Straight."

The Ogremon next to him smiled and revealed his own hand. "Full House." The last Ogremon was emotionless and just simply revealed his hand. "Straight Flush."

"Looks like you'll finally lose this time." Said the ogremon opposite of the blonde boy.

The boy gave off a frown and then simply loosen his grip and let the cards fall on the table, revealing a Royal Flush.

"You got to be kidding me! How am I supposed to sleep in this cold tonight!?"

"You won't be sleeping here tonight." A giant light suddenly burst out from underneath the table. The three Ogremon couldn't see what was behind the light until it faded a bit. "No.. it can't be… it's… Angemon!" Said the bare-skinned Ogremon.

"Then you must be… The Green Guardian!"

The boy smiled at the group and before long, his mission was completed. "I know I can count on you boy." Said Gennai through a hologram. "We'll take those Ogremon from here. You can go back to your normal life for now."

"Can you tell me why I'm the only one doing this?"

"In time, everything will make sense. Just make sure you don't tell your friends or everything we've achieved will be fruitless."

T.K was curious to ask more but he stopped himself. He trusted that the elderly man would eventually guide him to do good as he did before. "Call me whenever you need me." He said.

Gennai gave him a nod before the kid transported himself to Earth.

Back in the real world, Kari was engrossed in her homework assignments while her partner, Gatomon was half asleep. "Kari why are you up so late?" Said the cat Digimon. "I just received a message from Gennai that the Green Guardian has kidnapped innocent Digimon again. I'll probably be needed again soon so I must get this done or I'll never will."

Gatomon let off a quiet sigh. "A guardian eh… yeah right."


The final bell of the school day rang. Children were in a jam to get out of the building. TK as usual went deeper into the school upstairs to wait for Kari.

"Hey how was your day?" Kari asked as she walked out of her classroom and embraced the blonde boy. TK's arms wrapped around the girl and they both started breathing each other's scent. "It seems we hardly have time for each other lately." TK said.

"Yeah. But I promise you, once school is over I'll make up for it."

"I will too."

The two looked around to see that no one was around so they could comfortably kiss each other. Their routine consists of going to school, meet friends at break, more lessons, and then finally hang out together after school for a bit before going home to do lots of homework. Even their weekends were largely filled with homework. Their respective brothers thought they were crazy but they couldn't think much of it as they had to pursue their own life elsewhere in Japan.


TK chucked his bag against his bedroom wall as he took a seat behind his desk, feeling exhausted. He thought about taking a short nap before doing his homework but suddenly his Digivice beeped. He received a message from Gennai.

Sorry if I'm intruding but we just got word that the Pink Angel has raided our warehouses earlier today. I have a special mission for you which may lead us to who this so called Angel is. Meet me as soon as you're ready.

Gennai

"What kind of an angel would do these things?" He said to himself. TK thought about doing his homework first before meeting Gennai but he then told himself off for putting homework above justice. The blonde enthusiastically put on his mask and green costume, and went to the Digital World.